Jun Cai

Postdoc associate,

Computational biology lab,

Department of Bioengineering,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Office: DCL 3236

Tel: (217) 244-6562 (O)

Email: juncai@uiuc.edu

About me

I am a postdoc associate in professor Sheng Zhong ’s bioinformatics group. My research interest is in biological sequence analysis and regulatory networks. And I have a general interest in the functional understanding of how genomes encode diversity in the encoded proteome.

Selected Publications

• J. Cai, Y. Huang, F. Li and Y. Li. Alteration of protein subcellular location and domain formation by alternative translational initiation. Proteins, 2006 62: 793-799.[Pubmed]
• J. Cai*, J. Zhang*, Y. Huang and Y. Li. ATID: a web-oriented database for collection of publicly available alternative translational initiation events. Bioinformatics, 2005, 21: 4312-4314. (*Equally contributed authors) [Pubmed]
• J. Cai, Y. Huang, L. Ji and Y. Li. Inferring protein -protein interactions from messenger RNA expression profiles with SVM. Journal of Biological Systems, 2005, 13: 287-298. [WorldScinet Link]
• Y. Huang, J. Cai, L. Ji and Y. Li. Classifying G-protein coupled receptors with bagging classification tree. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2004, 28: 275-280. [Pubmed]